Software Engineer, Platform

Sierra

On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Level
Mid level
Category
Engineering
Salary
$230K – $390K / year
Posted
Aug 28, 2024 (2 years ago)
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About the job

About us

Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

What you'll do

  • Build Sierra’s platform. At Sierra, we believe agent development is an evolution of software development that requires new tools and systems. You will work on the platform primitives that power how agents are built, orchestrated, and deployed.

  • Invent the foundations of agent development. You’ll design systems that enable engineers and customers to build reliable, steerable agents, including runtime systems, developer tooling, and internal infrastructure.

  • Enable engineers to move faster. You’ll build tools and workflows that accelerate how engineers build and deploy agents across Sierra.

What you'll bring

  • A passion for being on the frontier of AI products.

  • Pride in building reliable, maintainable, and secure systems that scale.

  • Motivation and high-agency to drive outcomes in a high-autonomy culture.

  • 4+ years hands-on experience building production systems.

  • Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Even better

  • Experience building developer platforms or SDKs.

  • Experience working on distributed systems.

  • Experience building AI-powered products.

  • Leadership experience on technical projects.

Our values

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